It’s not unusual for politicians to invoke the memory of Ronald Reagan. Of course, most of those who do so are American – but not Eduardo Montealegre. He’s trying to become the next president of Nicaragua, and he’s calling for Americans to revive their Reagan-era interest in his country. “In the 1980s, the United States fought hard against Marxist expansion in the Western Hemisphere, and it drew a line in Nicaragua,” Montealegre said in a June 14 speech at the Heritage Foundation. He believes the time has come to draw that line again.
His main opponent in the upcoming election is Daniel Ortega. Yes, that Daniel Ortega-the iron-fisted Sandinista leader who nationalized Nicaragua’s economy, lifted its rate of inflation to roughly 30,000 percent, cracked down on dissent, inspired the Contra resistance movement, Comandante Ortega
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